WTO TRIPS Council (March 2016) to discuss Intellectual Property and Innovation: Education and Diffusion
The World Trade Organization (WTO) will convene its Council for TRIPS (TRIPS Council) from Tuesday, 1 March 2016 to Wednesday, 2 March 2016. Australia, the European Union, Switzerland and the United States of America have submitted a written request for the item “Intellectual Property and Innovation: Education and Diffusion” to be placed on the proposed agenda.
WTO/AIR/IP/6
5 FEBRUARY 2016SUBJECT: COUNCIL FOR TRIPS
THE NEXT MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FOR TRIPS WILL BE HELD IN THE CENTRE WILLIAM RAPPARD ON 1-2 MARCH 2016. THE MEETING WILL START AT
Continue ReadingFeasibility study on a TDR pooled fund for R&D to be released on 20 February 2016
In May 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) passed Decision WHA67(15) providing WHO the mandate to explore the feasibility of creating a voluntary pooled fund fund on R&D hosted by the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). The Decision outlined three principles guiding the consideration of the pooled fund:
SAVE THE DATE – 26 January 2016: Implications of the TPP and RCEP on Universal Health Coverage
Implications of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on Universal Health Coverage
Knowledge Ecology International
26 January 2016
9 AM to 12:30 PM
Lotus Suite 3. 22nd Floor
Bangkok Convention Centre
Bangkok, ThailandWHO’s evaluation of the global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property
In May 2008, the 61st World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the seminal global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property.
As stated in its aim, the global strategy on public health, innovation and intellectual property serves to
SAVE THE DATE – 16 December 2015 – KEI breakout session on A WTO Agreement on the Supply of Social Goods
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015, at the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (National Law University, Delhi, India), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) will convene a breakout session (led by Jamie Love, Director, KEI) on a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Social Goods.
SAVE THE DATE – 16 December 2015 – KEI workshop on a WTO Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and the copyright 3-step test
On Wednesday, 16 December 2015, at the Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest (National Law University, Delhi, India), Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) will convene a workshop entitled a “WTO Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and the Three-Step Test for Copyright and Related Rights.”
SCCR31: General Statement of South Africa on Limitations and Exceptions
On Thursday, 10 December 2015 South Africa made the following general intervention on copyright limitations and exceptions at WIPO’s 31st session of the Standing Committee on Copyright Right and Related Rights (SCCR).
WIPO SCP23 – 1 December 2015 – Statement of Knowledge Ecology International on Patents and Health
1 December 2015
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP 23)
KEI Statement on Patents and Health
Thank you Madame Chair
23 November 2015: Opening statement of Asia and the Pacific Group at Tenth Session of WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement
The tenth session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) meets from Monday, 23 November 2015 to Wednesday, 25 November 2015.
As noted by WIPO, the
Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) was established by the 2002 WIPO General Assemblies with a mandate to carry out technical assistance and coordination in the field of enforcement (norm-setting is explicitly excluded from the mandate).
US Chamber of Commerce lauds USPTO for securing a time-bound LDC waiver for pharmaceutical products
Nestled at the end Intellectual Property Watch’s (IP-Watch) brilliant reportage of a US Chamber of Commerce event – “Has the Sun Set on Multilateral Rulemaking on IP?” – is a quote by Patrick Kilbride (Executive Director, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global IP Center) praising the efforts of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in WTO negotiations on the LDC waiver for pharmaceutical products.
IP-Watch reported,